Arts and Crafts Style Frame
Maker
Frederick Harer
(American, 1879 - 1949)
Dateca. 1915
MediumWood and gilding
ClassificationsDecorative arts
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object numberF2014.11
DescriptionThis is a period American Arts and Crafts style frame, created ca. 1915, with a solid outer molding of four mitered pieces of hand-carved wood with gilding. It features a running fret top edge, rosette corners, with geometric patterns and short bands of overlapping leaves below to further highlight each corner. The sight edge is reeded, and the center is a curved band in a lozenge form. The total width of the molding is 3 3/8 inches, and an additional 7/8 inch hand-carved flat and hollow gilded liner will be added to extend the total width of the frame to 4 3/8 inches. Its profile measures 1 3/4 inch tall, and the total sight size, in advance of its resizing, is 35 3/8 inches by 29 3/8 inches. The back of the frame features the artist’s hand-carved signature “HARER.”
Label TextFrederick Harer
American, 1879–1949
Arts and Crafts Style Frame, ca. 1915
Gilded wood
Museum purchase F2014.11
